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DAIRY ARM SCHOOL

A. Lochrin advised his superiors and he was dire~ted to draw up specifications
and to have the work carried out. William Mc Donald, a local resident,
completed the repair work project.

Albert J. Mc Mullen, on 16th October 1897, replaced the bark
on the school house roof with corrugated iron. He supplied a new tank
to store drinking water. For this work, Mr. A. Mc Mullen was paid
£13.16.0 ($27.60).

Early in 1900, John Norton, the Member for the Northumberland
Electorate, drew to the attention of the Department of Public Instruction,
that there was a need for a weathershed at Dairy Arm school with its twenty
(20) pupils. The Department replied that it was not their policy to erect
weathersheds at 'half-time' schools.

Teacher Alexander Lochrin, in March 1900, requested his Department
to make some repairs to the Dairy Arm School. The following were some of
the repairs sought:-

1. Line school classroom with canvas.
2. Repair wall slabs.
3. Replace plaster on the fireplace.

Mr. John Johnston, of Wattagan, completed these repairs on 7th April 1900,
for which he was paid £13.8.0 ($26.80).

A new teache~, Mr. David Prentice, appointed on 10th March 1905,
to the 'half-time' schools, Dairy Arm and Wattagan, sought a new stove
and a new water storage tank to be erected at the teacher's residence
owned by Mr. F. Lynch. The Department of Public _Instruction requested
Mr. Lynch to supply these items. Mr. Lynch did so at a cost of £2.5.0
($4.50) for the tank and £4.10.0 ($9.00) for the stove. Mr. Lynch then
raised the residence rent from £15.0.0 (SJ0.00) to £18.0.0 ($36.00) per annum.

On 8th May 1906, Mr. F.B. Woodbury was engaged at a price of
£14.5.6 ($28.56) to maze the following repairs:-

1. Replace all the floor sleepers with six (6) inch